My autonomous lawn mower thread/blog

I'm hoping that it will head out and sense that it's raining so should head back to the base again, albeit a full loop of the lawn using the guidewire. There's probably something fancy that can be done to interlink the current weather to it's cut schedule but I'll see how the above pans out first.

I am in the process of getting some landscaping done and I'm trying to plan the lawn with the robot lawnmower in mind. I'd love to hear from you folks if you think it's ok, or if you have further tips or advice. I have made a plan below and I think it should be fairly straightforward. Some things of note:

1. My only real concern is how to deal with the soccer goals. I don't want the robot's blades to cut the nets, so just wondering what's best? Is the obstacle avoidance module necessary?
2. I have a small patio which will be in the garden itself (in orange) but it will be below the grass line so I think it should be ok and the robot should drive over it without damaging its blades.
3. I live in rural Ireland where we have lots of uneven stone walls and boulders, so I'm going to put down a curb alongside it to make things easier for the robot, and less strimming for me. Here's a photo to give a better idea.
4. The robot will only be doing the back lawn, I'll be doing the front lawn myself.
5. The robot will be powered by an outside socket attached to the garage, facing the lawn.
6. Wifi won't reach most of the lawn, is this a concern?

Have the same mower the elite+ is rated for 5000mtr’s. I have roughly 4000 Mtrs and it’s going 7 days a week 4 10 hr days 3 8hr days. When the growth went crazy there last month. I cut the whole lawn with a borrowed mower lower than the robot. He hasn’t missed a beat since just keeps it maintained

Definitely not an architect, just handy with the old computers. Have these plans made out for a couple of reasons so it's handy to post to various places as I need to.

I haven't actually purchased any goals yet but most of them have the nets wrapped around the bottom post so that's why I was a bit worried about it. I could see about getting ones that have the nets inside the post 🤔

To be prepared, I went and got the Worx Landroid L2000 and I don't think that has guide wire capabilities, just boundary wire, so hopefully it'll still make its way in ok.

Good tip about the 90 angles!

These may have a similar problem, if the mower doesn't bounce off the bottom of the goals (which it looks like it wouldn't it has a diameter of 6cm, which on paper looks ok but im not sure) it could possible drive through the net

Your options probably are

Physical barrier, put something like piece of timber around the bottom of goals so the mower will bounce of it. Not sure this will work great from both the inside and outside though. I do something similar on the legs of my trampoline and it works perfectly, but not sure if it will work well with the goals. Not my picture but ive done the same things as this.

Boundary barrier, if the goals are going to be in a fixed location, you could make a boundary island for each of them like you would with a flower bed.

Off limits add-on, is a less "permanent" way of achieving this , still requires it to be pegged down though. it is probably easier to remove/reverse if you wanted to

Personally I would probably go with the boundary wire, you could always remove it if you wanted to with a couple of those patch connectors.

@redlough this is what Ive ordered before. Thicker than what was already in situ, but works fine. make sure to get the connectors.

https://www.genisys24-shop.de/maehroboter-ersatzteile/husqvarna/kabel-genisys/husqvarna-automower-komp-kabel-maehroboter-begrenzung-draht-3-4mm-long-life-auf-der-kabelrolle_46323_191476

Probably a fault in the docking station.

Trying taking a short length of guide wire and putting it across the two terminals for the failing guide wire and see if the guide wire shows up. If not, then its clearly not your guide wire at fault but the docking station itself... they have been known to fail.

That's bad. That will either cause the docking station to eventually fail with all the reboots or it is a symptom that the docking station has an electrical fault that is causing it to trip.

You need to send the docking station to a dealer I'd say.... probably needs a new board...~ €180ish

The idea is to rule out your existing boundary and guide wires.

So, you take a new piece of guide wire and make up a "fake" tiny lawn effectively, by disconnecting all your existing connectors and only using the new guide wire (which will only be a few feet/metres) long and you can cut in some guide wire to it as well to simulate real guide wires..... connect that back up to the docking station and if you don't get a solid green light and 2 guide wires showing up you know it is not your real boundary/guide that's at fault.

Its just a test to rule out a wire break(or bad connection), it won't fix your problem!

Do you get a solid green light on the docking station right now? Even when its not showing the guide wires?

Cheers Kcross

I'll try this. Yeah I'm getting a solid green. I did the guide wire test on Guide 1 and get a solid green. Did it for Guide 2 and get the flashing blue light.

So I suspect that side of the station is faulty. I did the find guide wire test with AM radio and it was ok until I got to 10 metres from station when signal was lost. So I gently dug up the wire but found no break. At the minute the phone App is saying the mower is leaving the station (99% charge) but its still in the station and will be for some time unless I physically do something about it! So the below sketch would be how I'd cross the wires? Or in this case it looks like by crossing G2 to B1 it would tell me whats up?

I guess it’s the convenience of plug and play. My generation barely know what a landline is a boundary wire just seems old school when our iPhones can pinpoint our location our even an apple AirTag in a suitcase. Lack of wires would also mean family could borrow it for a trial, or use it in more than one location.

Hopefully @navimow11 can help you out with the Irish seller they found but I don't think there's any active here yet. It's only been launched in a selection of countries so far and we both bought from Belgium - arrived at the end of last week. Stock seems very limited relative to demand due to the usual issues with semi-conductors etc. but Segway say they should have another batch in the coming months.

In terms of the user side of things, I'm afraid I've nothing to report so far as I haven't had a chance to set it up yet. Hoping to have it up and running before next weekend.

have read this too, but limited pool of reviews, and those with issues will be the first to report. There is an antenna that can be bought also.